Investigation of coupled cobalt–silver nanoparticle system by plan view TEM

Progress in Natural Science: Materials International

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 186-192

  Fox, Daniel ^a   Verre, Ruggero ^a   O'Dowd, Brendan J ^a   Arora, Sunil K ^a   Faulkner, Colm C ^a   Shvets, Igor V ^a   Zhang, Hongzhou ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Ag; Co; Focused ion beam; Lift out; Nanoparticle; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

COBALT; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FOCUSED ION BEAMS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

AG; CO; FOCUSED IONS BEAMS; HIGH QUALITY; ION BEAM MICROSCOPE; LIFT OUTS; NANOPARTICLE SYSTEMS; QUALITY TRANSMISSION; SAMPLE PREPARATION TECHNIQUES; SITE-SPECIFICITY;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84861618527     PISSN: 10020071     EISSN: 17455391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnsc.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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